After the unprecedented power failure in London Heathrow, the operation started again. Already in Friday evening, individual planes rolled back to the runway. The cause of the fire is still unclear.
However, the National Airline British Airways expects that it will only treat around 85 percent of its planned flights on Saturday. However, delays can be expected until the situation is normalized.
According to its own statements, the British Ministry of Transport had temporarily lifted its restrictions on night flights to reduce the overload of the airport.
No signs of sabotage
“Something like that has never happened before,” said Airport leader Woldbye Hours after the serious fire in a substation on Friday, which also supplies the airport. There are no signs of sabotage. The anti-terrorist investigators nevertheless investigated the case because the fire was raged near a “critical part of the national infrastructure”.
“No small fire”
The Airport CEO emphasized that it was an incident with significant effects. “It’s not a small fire,” said the airport leader. The power outages can be compared to that of a city on a customized medium. The back -up systems that are supposed to secure emergency landings and evacuations would have worked as planned. However, they are “not interpreted to operate the entire airport,” said Woldbye.
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Hundreds of thousands of affected passengers
How large the effects are is not clear. The British news agency PA reported more than 200,000 passengers. The costs for the airport and the airlines were in the reach of double digital million, an expert told The Sky News Station. In Germany, about 9,000 affected passengers were expected who could not fly because of the power outages in Heathrow.
The problem: Failure in the sky according to Sky after passing the fifth largest airport in the world resulted in a Domino effect – passengers and plane teams were hit worldwide. Several people reported in the media because it was in the distance to be on a plane that had to turn around on the way to Heathrow.
Source: Krone
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